The Closet of Counsells conteining The aduice of diuers wyse Philosophers, touchinge sundry morall matters, in Poesies, Preceptes, Prouerbes, and Parrables, translated, and collected out of diuers aucthors, into Englishe Verse: by Edmond Eluiden. Wherunto is anexed a pithy and pleasant discription of the abuses: and vanities of the vvorlde |
Of vertue and vice. |
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Of vertue and vice.
Like as the sight or cleane prospector clearenes of the eye:
Can not at once both things aboue
and thinges beneath descry.
Euen so the heart with all his payne
his knowledge and his skill:
Can not at once apply himselfe
both vnto good and yll.
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